The Maintenance Rehearsal Task of Learning a Word by Repeating

question 45

Multiple Choice

The maintenance rehearsal task of learning a word by repeating it over and over again is most likely to

• A) lead to immediate decay due to retroactive interference.
• B) produce some short-term remembering, but fail to produce longer-term memories.
• C) cause sensory memories to interfere with consolidation in working memory.
• D) lead to effective autobiographical memories.

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Definitions:

Interval Data

A type of data that is measured along a scale, where the difference between values is meaningful, but there is no true zero point.

Nominal Data

Data classified into categories that cannot be ordered or ranked in any meaningful way.

Ordinal Data

A type of categorical statistical data representing order or rank, such as levels of satisfaction, without specifying the exact differences between ranks.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that proposes there is no significant difference or effect and serves as the default assumption to be tested against an alternative.